The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (Large Print) - Softcover

Darwin, Charles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1479253022 ISBN 13: 9781479253029

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin was published in the November of 1859 starting a firestorm all over the world. Becoming the foundation of evolutionary biology with its well reasoned arguments it has become a cornerstone of science. With Darwin's collection of evidence of natural selection over generations it introduced common descent through branching evolution, survival of the fittest and adaption. Not only has his book provided one of the most important theory's in all of biology it has provided insight into many other fields of study.

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Charles Darwin, a Victorian scientist and naturalist, has become one of the most famous figures of science to date. Born in 1809 to an upper-middle-class medical family, he was destined for a career in either medicine or the Anglican Church. However, he never completed his medical education and his future changed entirely in 1831 when he joined HMS Beagle as a self-financing, independent naturalist. On returning to England in 1836 he began to write up his theories and observations which culminated in a series of books, most famously On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection in 1859, where he challenged and contradicted contemporary biological and religious beliefs with two decades worth of scientific investigation and theory. Darwin's theory of natural selection is now the most widely accepted scientific model of how species evolve. He died in 1882 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Damien Hirst is an internationally renowned English artist, who has dominated the art scene in England since the 1990s. Known in particular for his series of works on death, Hirst here provides a contemporary, visual take on Darwin's theory of evolution - the struggle between life and death in nature. William Bynum is Professor Emeritus of the History of Medicine at University College, London, and was for many years Head of the Academic Unit of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. He edited the scholarly journal Medical History from 1980 to 2001, and his previous publications include Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century; The Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (co-edited with Roy Porter); The Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (with Roy Porter), The Dictionary of Medical Biography (with Helen Bynum), and History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction. He lives in Suffolk.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1479253022
• ISBN 13: 9781479253029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408